Google offers free lessons to help up-and-coming developers build Android apps using Kotlin.

Kotlin is a hot programming language right now, and its eclipse of Java for Android mobile development might leave Visual Studio developers wondering how they can get in on the action.

Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android.

Although you can run Android's Gradle with very little (if any) manual configuration, Gradle has much more to offer than what’s available out-of-the-box!

If you want to learn the Kotlin programming language, check out this list of books, courses, tutorials, videos and websites.

As it stands today, Android apps are generally coded in Kotlin, but Apple is looking to provide its Swift coding language as an alternative.